ducation and New Technologies
Ravee Kaul
DA-IICT (India)
raveekaul@gmail.com
Abstract
As we enter a new millennium, most people are by now aware that we are in the midst of one of the most
dramatic technological revolutions in history that is changing everything from the ways that we work,
communicate, and spend our leisure time. The technological revolution centers on computer, information,
communication, and multimedia technologies, is often interpreted as the beginnings of a knowledge or
information society, and therefore ascribes education a central role in every aspect of life. This Great
Transformation poses tremendous challenges to educators to rethink their basic tenets, to deploy the new
technologies in creative and productive ways, and to restructure schooling to respond constructively and
progressively to the technological and social changes that we are now experiencing. At the same time
that we are undergoing technological revolution, important demographic and socio-political changes are
occurring in the United States and throughout the world. Emigration patterns have brought an explosion
of new peoples into the U.S. in recent decades and the country is now more racially and ethnically
diverse, more multicultural, than ever before. This creates the challenge of providing people from diverse
races, classes, and backgrounds with the tools and competencies to enable them to succeed and
participate in an ever more complex and changing world1. In this paper, I argue that we need multiple
literacies for our multicultural society, that we need to develop new literacies to meet the challenge of the
new technologies, and that literacies of diverse sorts including a more fundamental importance for print
literacy are of crucial importance in restructuring education for a high tech and multicultural society and
global culture.
My argument is that in a period of dramatic technological and social change, education needs to cultivate
a variety of new types of literacies to make education relevant to the demands of a new millennium. My
assumptions are that new technologies are altering every aspect of our society and culture, and that we
need to comprehend and make use of them both to understand and transform our worlds. My goal would
be to introduce new literacies to empower individuals and groups traditionally excluded and thus to
reconstruct education to make it more responsive to the challenges of a democratic and multicultural
society.
ducation and New TechnologiesRavee KaulDA-IICT (India)raveekaul@gmail.comAbstractAs we enter a new millennium, most people are by now aware that we are in the midst of one of the mostdramatic technological revolutions in history that is changing everything from the ways that we work,communicate, and spend our leisure time. The technological revolution centers on computer, information,communication, and multimedia technologies, is often interpreted as the beginnings of a knowledge orinformation society, and therefore ascribes education a central role in every aspect of life. This GreatTransformation poses tremendous challenges to educators to rethink their basic tenets, to deploy the newtechnologies in creative and productive ways, and to restructure schooling to respond constructively andprogressively to the technological and social changes that we are now experiencing. At the same timethat we are undergoing technological revolution, important demographic and socio-political changes areoccurring in the United States and throughout the world. Emigration patterns have brought an explosionof new peoples into the U.S. in recent decades and the country is now more racially and ethnicallydiverse, more multicultural, than ever before. This creates the challenge of providing people from diverseraces, classes, and backgrounds with the tools and competencies to enable them to succeed andparticipate in an ever more complex and changing world1. In this paper, I argue that we need multipleliteracies for our multicultural society, that we need to develop new literacies to meet the challenge of thenew technologies, and that literacies of diverse sorts including a more fundamental importance for printliteracy are of crucial importance in restructuring education for a high tech and multicultural society andglobal culture.My argument is that in a period of dramatic technological and social change, education needs to cultivatea variety of new types of literacies to make education relevant to the demands of a new millennium. Myassumptions are that new technologies are altering every aspect of our society and culture, and that weneed to comprehend and make use of them both to understand and transform our worlds. My goal wouldbe to introduce new literacies to empower individuals and groups traditionally excluded and thus toreconstruct education to make it more responsive to the challenges of a democratic and multiculturalsociety.
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